Author Topic: Low pass - firefighting from the air (Read 292 times)

Chairboy · « **on:** October 22, 2007, 09:40:34 AM »

Some amazingly low passes here:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/21/vo.malibu.and.castaic.kcal

Watch his rudder & ailerons, this is some seriously gutsy flying.

BiGBMAW · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2007, 09:58:02 AM »

slow...low...

wow..that looks a bit too low

Reminds me of th efootage of th ec130s wings snapping off..make smy belly turn..

That looks like a dam big plane to be flying it liek a little cessna 152

Up here I fly into the Chico Aiprort home of the CDF... Few years ago they had a Radial engine plane with JATO's on it ..Sounded so funny..

I believe it was its last year in service because of the costs of maintaining the radials...But what a sweet combo..SOunds of radials and 2 little Jatos pods attached

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2007, 10:08:52 AM »

Holy crap he was low. Really crazy if you consider the winds.

Jappa52 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2007, 10:14:15 AM »

Wow impressive. It looked like he was going to hit that tree on his first drop. How would you like to have that job!?

FBBone · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2007, 10:15:06 AM »

That takes GIANT brass cojones!!!

midnight Target · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2007, 10:17:01 AM »

I was watching that live yesterday and I think I hit the rewind button 5 times on the DVR cause I couldn't believe how low that guy was flying.

On a side note, I was driving last night between Riverside and Hemet and was caught in by far the worst driving conditions I've ever experienced. Winds had to be a sustained 60mph and the dust was creating complete blackout conditions. I have a 4 wheel drive with fog lamps and I couldn't see the line in the road right next to my vehicle. That was some scary ****.